GeoPortOst

GeoPortOst, the specialist portal of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg for cartographic media on Eastern Europe, offers online access to over 3,400 digitised and geolocated maps from the library holdings of the IOS and partner institutions. The digitised maps are available as high-resolution TIFFs and GeoTIFFs, can be downloaded free of charge, provided this is permitted under copyright law, and can be annotated collaboratively using Recogito. The geoportal was developed at the IOS as a discovery system based on Django. The collection focuses on hidden thematic maps, i.e. those printed in research literature, on the history, ethnography and economic and social conditions of the region. The portal also includes historical maps from the collections of the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG) and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI). GeoPortOst was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2014 to 2019.
Numerous filter options offer a variety of different ways to access the maps. You can search not only by bibliographic information, but also by place names, keywords, time context or map type.
On the map displayed in the geoportal, you can navigate directly to the region for which you are searching for a map. You can zoom in on the map using ‘-/+’ or the mouse wheel. Select the desired area by holding down the right mouse button and marking a rectangle. You can narrow down the results obtained in this way according to the following criteria:

Map must lie entirely within the area.
Map must lie partially within the area.
Map may encompass the area.

(As of 16 February 2026)

Freely available

Formal type Online

Publisher Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS)

https://geoportost.ios-regensburg.de/

Access Type
Access link	https://geoportost.ios-regensburg.de/

If you have any questions about the database or licensing, please contact e-medien@zhbluzern.ch

Resource id

101506

Subjects

Anthropology Geography History Slavonic Studies

Database types

General Information Resource Catalogue Portal

Keywords

Eastern Europe Southeastern Europe Map Portal Dependent map

Notes

Not specified

Instructions

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Further information

Alternative titles	GeoPortOst: Portal für thematische und versteckte ...
Countries	Albanien Baltikum Bosnien-Herzegowina Bulgarien Byzantinisches Reich Estland Griechenland GUS Jugoslawien Kroatien Lettland Litauen Makedonien Moldawien Montenegro Osmanisches Reich Osteuropa Ostmitteleuropa Polen Rumänien Russland, Sowjetunion Serbien Slowakei Slowenien Suedosteuropa Tschechische Republik Ukraine Ungarn Belarus

External identifiers

ZDB-ID	3099947-9

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